“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” –William Faulkner
William Faulkner, an American novelist and Nobel Prize laureate, known for his Southern Gothic literature, often explored themes of human emotion. This quote reflects his belief that gratitude, like other human qualities, must be actively practiced to have meaning.
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