Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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