Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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