The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNERPouring out liquor is like burning books.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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