And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROur most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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