Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMemory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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