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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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