The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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