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When ideas come, I write them;...

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Yes sir. You can be more carel...

Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

The artists who want to be wri...

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

We could live like counts. ......

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

The best job that was ever off...

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

If I were reincarnated, I'd wa...

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

If a story is in you, it has t...

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Talk, talk, talk: the utter an...

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Given the choice between the e...

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

It was like something you have...

It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

You don't dare think whole eve...

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

We shall not kill and maybe ne...

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

A man or a race either if he's...

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

You cannot swim for new horizo...

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Gough never pretended to perfe...

Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

At one time I thought the most...

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I d

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Always dream and shoot higher ...

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

The writer's only responsibili...

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

The most important thing is in...

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

A mule will labor ten years wi...

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....