Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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