Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNERShe was the captain of her soul
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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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 man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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