My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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