A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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 only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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