Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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 most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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