The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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