| No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. |
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- William Faulkner |
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| To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. |
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- William Faulkner |
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| Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. |
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- William Faulkner |
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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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- William Faulkner |
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| We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. |
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- William Faulkner |
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| Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. |
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- William Faulkner |
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| The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. |
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- William Faulkner |
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| What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it and it works." |
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- William Faulkner |
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| The past is never dead, it is not even past. |
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- William Faulkner |
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| Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. |
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- William Faulkner |
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| All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. |
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- William Faulkner |
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