Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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