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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.

William Faulkner

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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Been Dictionary Know might never Reader Send Use Word
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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Chronic Deceive Himself Liar Lie Only Practical Quickest Say Selfconvicted Veracity
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afternoon Boy Clock Every Fourteen Instant July Once Southern Still Two Want Year Yet
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Before Cringe Feminine Like Override Success Woman
The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Curiosity Important Insight Man Most Muse Talent Think Whether Wonder
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Artist Courage Himself Honesty Kid Must Objectivity Plus Quality
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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Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth
History is not was, it is.
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History Not Was
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Clock Come Life Only Stop Time When
The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Error Follow Fool Learn Mistake Own People Teach Theory Writer Young Yourself
But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beck Call Cent Dammed Every Invest Itinerant Postage Propose Resignation Scoundrel Sir Stamp Two
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Less Many Some Thing Thousand Three Too Word
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Angel Black Clean Line Long Shine Simple Straight Truth Unchallengable Underibale View White
Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Childhood Consequence Date Drama Echo Generation Haunt Image New Perceive Pursue Ripple Road Taken Turn Wrong
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Always Can Cream Do Higher Know Shoot You
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Believe Endure Man Merely Prevail
Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Artist Endurance Fortitude Gutter Happy Hole Learn Live Need Rat Vegetable
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Country First People Person Place Understand World
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Accept Action Bear Burden Consequences Gentlemen Responsibility
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Book Burn Like Liquior Out Pour
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young

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