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 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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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