The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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