The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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.
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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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