Read, read read. Read everything.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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…
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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 quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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