The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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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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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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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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 salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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 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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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