The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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