She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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