The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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