An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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More William Faulkner Quotes
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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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 be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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