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
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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 you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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