Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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History is not was, it is.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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