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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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