I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWriting a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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