We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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