The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHistory is not was, it is.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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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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