I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMen have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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