Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMy own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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 past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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