You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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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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