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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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