I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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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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One 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…
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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