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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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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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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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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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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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