Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROne of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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