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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.

William Faulkner

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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Accept Action Bear Burden Consequences Gentlemen Responsibility
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 FAULKNER

Back Bear Cash Either Got Kidos Matter Money Paper Picture Refuse Young
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Avatar Condition Existence Fluid Individual Momentary No Only People Such Thing Time
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Anything False Himself Intolerance Love might Much Page Paragraph Ruthless Throw Train
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Already Being Earth Homemade Human Last Launch Next Quarrel Sound Try Two Worthless
I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Badly Enough Money Want Work
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNER

For God Hell
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Better Contemporaries Do Dream Higher Know Predecessor Shoot Try Yourself
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aim Artificial Artist Every Fix Hold Hundred Later Life Look Motion Stranger Year
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bone Flesh Illusion Like Memory Part
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Artist Behind Final Important Importantly Irrevocable Leave Man Mortal Oblivion Pass Possible Since Someday Something Through Wall
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Come Has Out Story
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Frustration Little Need People Sharpen Spirit Toughen Trouble
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Important Most One Talent Thought Time
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absorb Apprentice Carpenter Good Just Like Master Out Raed Study Window Write

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