The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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