A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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