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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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