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Letter "W" » William Faulkner Quotes
«I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express . . . but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure must would have done better.»
«Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.»
«I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
capable, compassion, creatures, endurance, endure, immortal, immortals, inexhaustible, prevail, sacrifice
«It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.»
«A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Fiction,
Truth,
Writers,
Writing
| Keywords:
fiction, fictions, fiction writer, To Tell the Truth, unable, writer, writes
«Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.»
«A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.»
«Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.»
«A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.»
«The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anguished, anguishes, completely, get rid of, responsibility, rid, rid of, ruthless, writer
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