Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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 mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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