The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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