My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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