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 FAULKNERShe was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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