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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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