I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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