Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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 salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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History is not was, it is.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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