A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
WILLIAM FAULKNERNothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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 say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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.
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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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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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