People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read read. Read everything.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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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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