Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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For 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…
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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