The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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