Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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History is not was, it is.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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