The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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