So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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She was the captain of her soul
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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