The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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