Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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More William Faulkner Quotes
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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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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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.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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