Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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