If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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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.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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 salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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