The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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