Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. 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 past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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