I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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