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
WILLIAM FAULKNERRemember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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 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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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 think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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