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 FAULKNERI give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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