We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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