Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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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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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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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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