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William Faulkner Inspirational Quotes (340)

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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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Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.
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She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.
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A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
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True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.
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That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
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Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
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Living is one constant and perpetual instant when the arras-veil before what-is-to-be hangs docile and even glad to the lightest naked thrust if we had dared, were brave enough (not wise enough: no wisdom needed here) to make the rending gash.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.
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The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
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