We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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She was the captain of her soul
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