No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one individual can tell the truth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Haunted 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.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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