But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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 say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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