The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. 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. . William Faulkner
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  2. When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women - Gustave Flaubert

  3. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf

  4. Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men. - Joseph Conrad

  5. There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out. - Mae West

More Quotes By William Faulkner
  1. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

  2. She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. 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.

  3. You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

  4. I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

  5. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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