Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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