The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAt one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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