Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLike 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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