Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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.
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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.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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