The past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNERUnless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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