The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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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 say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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