The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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