I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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