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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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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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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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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 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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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