To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only 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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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