The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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