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More William Faulkner Quotes
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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