If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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She was the captain of her soul
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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