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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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