A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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