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Letter "W" » William Faulkner Quotes
«I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.»
«My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.»
«Well, it's like this. I ain't got to but I can't help it.»
«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.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Father, Father Time, Get Ready, long time, my father
«The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
description, descriptions, understatement, understatements
«How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.»
«The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.»
«This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.»
«People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
artists, endurance, fortitude, frustration, frustrations, gutter, gutters, hole, rat, sharpen, sharpened, sharpening, toughen, Vegetables
«There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.»
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