The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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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.
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Time 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.
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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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