You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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