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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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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 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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History is not was, it is.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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