All 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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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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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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