Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNERWriting a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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