The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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History is not was, it is.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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