Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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 think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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