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WILLIAM FAULKNERThe work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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