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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Poor man. Poor mankind.
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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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It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.
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It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
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Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
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We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
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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 gentleman can live through anything.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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