If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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