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…
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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