Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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 writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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