No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and 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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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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