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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one individual can tell the truth.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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