The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFor 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…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do 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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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