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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

William Faulkner

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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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Just Matter People Salvation Sin Too Whom Word
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Before Born Consequence Dead Desire Environment Eternity Heredity History Labor never Past Spun Web
But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beck Call Cent Dammed Every Invest Itinerant Postage Propose Resignation Scoundrel Sir Stamp Two
Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Gather Rose Withered
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Die End Go How Make One People Place Take Two Word
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Dead Even never Not Past
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

After Death Destroy Good Nothing Only Thing Writer
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bone Flesh Illusion Like Memory Part
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Fortune His Man Sum
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Avatar Condition Existence Fluid Individual Momentary No Only People Such Thing Time
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Ever Kno Mean Men More Possibly Women Wor
Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Demand Distract Event Feel Image Quotation Resonance Some
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work

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