No one individual can tell the truth.
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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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 field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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