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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMy own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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