He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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