I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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 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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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