Wonder. Go on and wonder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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