Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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History is not was, it is.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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