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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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