I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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 ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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