The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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