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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one individual can tell the truth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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