If a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTime is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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 only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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