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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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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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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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