War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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 quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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