I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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