He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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