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If a story is in you, it has to come out.

William Faulkner

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Chronic Deceive Himself Liar Lie Only Practical Quickest Say Selfconvicted Veracity
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure
Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Die Do Love Men Women
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Cam Do Not What You
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Courage Horizon Lose New Shore Sight Swim Until
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…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Day Drink Eat Eight Hour Make Man One Shame Thing Work
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Despite Fault Love Virtue You
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Artist Beg Choose Creature Demon Done Driven Everybody Steal Wonder Work
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
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
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Buy Drink Man never Poor Thing Two War
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work
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
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer

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