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…
WILLIAM FAULKNERGood ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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