The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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