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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERCivilization begins with distillation
More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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…
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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