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Out Quotes by William Faulkner
- We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put…
- It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
- The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier…
- Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they…
- I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely…
- How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset…
- He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
- Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
- Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an…
- If a story is in you, it has to come out.
- When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came…
- ...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out…
- I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
- If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
- ...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
- Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
- Vivian Rutledge: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. I like to see them work out a little first. See if they're front…
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