The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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