The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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