My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Haunted 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.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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