Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERArtists 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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