Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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