Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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History is not was, it is.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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