I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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