Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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