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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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