You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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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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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 field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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