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• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

  William Faulkner

  Mistake, Believe, Writing

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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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.

  William Faulkner

  Time, People, Individual

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

  William Faulkner

  Heart, Writing, Conflict

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• My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

  William Faulkner

  Drinking, Writing, Scotch Whisky

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

  William Faulkner

  Want, Enough

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Misfortunes

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.104, Modern Library

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• a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Risk, Trying

  William Faulkner (1985). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

  William Faulkner

  Space, Two, Trying

  1959 Speech to UNESCO Commission, in the NewYork Times, 3 Oct.

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• The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

  William Faulkner

  Science, Technology, Men

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• 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

  Bus Stops, Logical, Desks

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• Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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• Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

  William Faulkner

  Book

  William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

  William Faulkner

  Work, Men, Eight

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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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.

  William Faulkner

  Butterfly, Light, Air

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If there is a God what the hell is He for?

  William Faulkner

  If There Is A God, Hell, Ifs

  William Faulkner (1946). “The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying”, New York : The Modern library

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• Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Gun, Worry

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• Who gathers the withered rose?

  William Faulkner

  Rose, Withered

  William Faulkner (2006). “Novels, 1926-1929”

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• Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

  William Faulkner

  Fighting, Men, Sun

  William Faulkner (2011). “Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner”, p.85, Vintage

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• Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

  William Faulkner

  Stupid, Silence, Stupidity

  William Faulkner (2006). “Novels, 1926-1929”

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• He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

  William Faulkner

  Music, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Darling

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• I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

  William Faulkner

  Pain, Hangover, Thinking

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• Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Men And Women, Dies

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• And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

  William Faulkner

  Patience, Long, Waiting

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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...

  William Faulkner

  Boys, July, Years

  "Intruder in the Dust". Book by William Faulkner, 1948.

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