If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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