The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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History is not was, it is.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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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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