The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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