A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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