Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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She was the captain of her soul
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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 salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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