The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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