At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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