Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read read. Read everything.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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