Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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 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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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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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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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