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 FAULKNERTime is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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