Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
WILLIAM FAULKNERWriting a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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