The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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