He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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