Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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History is not was, it is.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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