I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMen have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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She was the captain of her soul
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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