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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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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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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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