History is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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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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