There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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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.
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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 don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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