We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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 don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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