Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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