Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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A 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.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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