A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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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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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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.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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