You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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