I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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 work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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