It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNever 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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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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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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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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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