My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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