Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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