A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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 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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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