She was the captain of her soul
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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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