The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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