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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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 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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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