Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for 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 work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do 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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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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