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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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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 last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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