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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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History is not was, it is.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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