Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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 writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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