People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFor every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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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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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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