If a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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