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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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