QUOTES by William Faulkner
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.
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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
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Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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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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Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
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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 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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
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