It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTry to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Remember, 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.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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