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.
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 man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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