Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMemory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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 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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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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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