People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAt one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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