You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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