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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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 bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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History is not was, it is.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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 seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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