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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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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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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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