Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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She was the captain of her soul
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