The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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