At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on 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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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