No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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 only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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