Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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Civilization begins with distillation
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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