You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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