History is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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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.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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