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  • #1
    William Faulkner
    “How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
    William C. Faulkner

  • #2
    William Faulkner
    “If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
    William Faulkner

  • #3
    William Faulkner
    “The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
    William Faulkner

  • #4
    William Faulkner
    “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

  • #5
    William Faulkner
    “It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
    tags: help

  • #6
    William Faulkner
    “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, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
    William Faulkner

  • #7
    William Faulkner
    “...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
    William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

  • #8
    William Faulkner
    “A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
    William Faulkner

  • #9
    William Faulkner
    “War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”
    William Faulkner

  • #10
    William Faulkner
    “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
    William Faulkner

  • #11
    William Faulkner
    “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

  • #12
    William Faulkner
    “It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”
    William Faulkner

  • #13
    William Faulkner
    “There is no was.”
    William Faulkner

  • #14
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #15
    William Faulkner
    “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
    William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

  • #16
    William Faulkner
    “Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
    William Faulkner

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #18
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #19
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #20
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The first draft of anything is shit.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #21
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #22
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #26
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
    Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “In order to write about life first you must live it.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
    Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

  • #30
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms



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