Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNER