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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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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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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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