If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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