Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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 have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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