I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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