Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSo, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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 there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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