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 FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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