Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLet the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER