The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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 never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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