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By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. 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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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. 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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