The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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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.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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