The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBecause no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to 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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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