Best William Faulkner Wisdom
- Idleness breeds our better virtues. Better
- …I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy… Affirmed
- In writing, you must kill all your darlings. All
- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… Aim
- It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end. Die
- You men,' she says. 'You durn men. Durn
- Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world. Angeles
- Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. Ever Met
- The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. Any
- A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune Day
- We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears! All
- An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. Art
- Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. All
- I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and… Any
- If a story is in you, it has to come out. Funny
- Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. Heartbreaking
- Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. Choice
- It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened… All
- You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have… Alone
- We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't. Inspirational
- A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of… Absorb
- You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. Cannot Swim
- 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. Alaska
- A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. Kicking
- ...and you don t have to sleep alone you don t even have to sleep at all and so all you have to do is… All
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