Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROne of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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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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History is not was, it is.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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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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