All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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