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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYour illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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