Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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