Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAs long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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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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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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She was the captain of her soul
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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