A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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