If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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