We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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