Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAt one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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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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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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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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