He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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She was the captain of her soul
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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