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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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