The past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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History is not was, it is.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen 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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