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ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
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Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
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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.
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The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
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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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Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
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Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
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It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
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Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...
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