He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGood ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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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 don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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