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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

William Faulkner

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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Justmw Ay Money Say Spend Value
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Anyone Next Seduce Talk Time Try With Word
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Another Except Have Know Mix Same String Try Way
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Before Cringe Feminine Like Override Success Woman
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aim Arrest Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Mena Motion Year
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Classic Earth Individual Men Next Room Thousand Today Tonight Week Women
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Desire Give Hope Mausoleum
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Classic Do Everything Good How Read Trash
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Alone Before Best Black Learn Leave Lot People Take Think Time Waste Way White
She was the captain of her soul
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Captain Her She Soul
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Cam Do Not What You

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