The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMemory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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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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