The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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