Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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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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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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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