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William Faulkner Inspirational Quotes (340)

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Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.
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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
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If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
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They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
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It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.
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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 I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
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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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Poor man. Poor mankind.
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There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.
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She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
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A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
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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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Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
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I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.
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When ideas come, I write them when they don't come, I don't.
William Faulkner
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