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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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