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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

By William Faulkner
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

By William Faulkner
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes him or herself a better human being than their nature wants to be, if they followed their nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

By William Faulkner
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

By William Faulkner
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

By William Faulkner
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

By William Faulkner
I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

By William Faulkner
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

By William Faulkner
I decline to accept the end of man.

By William Faulkner
I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.

By William Faulkner
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

By William Faulkner
He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

By William Faulkner
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

By William Faulkner
Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

By William Faulkner
Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

By William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

By William Faulkner
A gentleman can live through anything.

By William Faulkner
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

By William Faulkner
Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

By William Faulkner
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

By William Faulkner