You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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She was the captain of her soul
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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