No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGood ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Like 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.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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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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