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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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