The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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