The past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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