Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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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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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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