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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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