The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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