Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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