It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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