You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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