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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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