A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The 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.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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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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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 next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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 you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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