Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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