Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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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 writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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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.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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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 since it is life.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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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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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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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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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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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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