No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNER






