He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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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.
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