Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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