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 FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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