A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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 writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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