You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRemember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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