A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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History is not was, it is.
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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.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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