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.
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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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