I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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History is not was, it is.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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