We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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