Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWomen know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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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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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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