No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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