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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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