The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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