Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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