The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLike a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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