Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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