You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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 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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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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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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