Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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