Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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