Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYour illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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