The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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