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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

William Faulkner

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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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Aim Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Life Look Motion Stranger Year
He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
Civilization begins with distillation
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Begin Civilization Distillation One Liner
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Art Only Responsible Writer
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Been Experience Food Little Need Own Paper Tobacco Tool Trade Whisky
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Man Salvation Suffer World
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Avatar Condition Existence Fluid Individual Momentary No Only People Such Thing Time
Read, read read. Read everything.
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Everything Raed
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Error Learn Mistake Own People Teach Yourself
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Every Evoke Hand Ideal Man Mind Phrase Stage Which Women Word Wrist
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 FAULKNER

Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Children Color Country Culture Desperate Matter Murder Probably Reach Reason Survive
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Avoid Been Dangerm Fight Every Except Men Pracfist Reason Sun Under

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