I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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