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the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
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There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
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An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
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Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
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Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
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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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Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
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Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
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I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes people learn only by error.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
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