Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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