Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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