The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMy own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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 writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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