All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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