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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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