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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERJust 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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