Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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