How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYour illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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