No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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