It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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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.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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