The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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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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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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