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.

William Faulkner


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It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.

William Faulkner


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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

William Faulkner

Mots clés humor



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When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

William Faulkner


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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

William Faulkner

Mots clés love marriage



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You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

William Faulkner

Mots clés women sexism



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The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

William Faulkner

Mots clés war



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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 we fall into furious attitudes,
dead gestures of dolls.

William Faulkner


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Wonder. Go on and wonder.

William Faulkner


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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

William Faulkner


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