For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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