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 FAULKNERThe quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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History is not was, it is.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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…
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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