I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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 last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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.
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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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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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So, never be afraid. 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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She was the captain of her soul
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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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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 know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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