I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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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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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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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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