William Faulkner quotes - page 6

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... (William Faulkner)
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself. View quote
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. View quote
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. View quote
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. View quote
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You can't. You just have to. View quote
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I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept... The plastic asshole of the world. View quote
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Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while. View quote
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Caddy smelled like trees. (William Faulkner)
This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward. View quote
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Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. View quote
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. View quote
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She was the captain of her soul. View quote
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History is not was, it is. View quote
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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war. View quote
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. View quote
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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue... View quote
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I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period. View quote
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A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it. (William Faulkner)
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. View quote
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They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. View quote
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Civilization begins with distillation. View quote
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She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do. View quote
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