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| William Faulkner
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. 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. I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us. 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. Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid. 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. The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. The basest of all things is to be afraid.The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. 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. This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. They were coming toward where the flag was and I went along the fence. Luster was hunting in the grass by the flower tree. {from the novel, 'The Sound and the Fury'} Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat. |
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