A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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