Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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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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