A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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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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