No one individual can tell the truth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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