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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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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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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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