I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERShe was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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