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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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