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 FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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