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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAt one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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