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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
William Faulkner
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
William Faulkner
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
William Faulkner
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
William Faulkner
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
William Faulkner
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
William Faulkner
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner