He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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 know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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