A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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