The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSo, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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