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William Faulkner Inspirational Quotes (340)

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It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.
William Faulkner
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...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
William Faulkner
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Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
William Faulkner
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...
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A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.
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In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
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I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.
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In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
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Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
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I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
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The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.
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I listen to the voices.
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Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
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Well, Bud, he said, looking at me, I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
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She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
William Faulkner
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