People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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