A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Someone 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.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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