The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWhatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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