The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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