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 FAULKNERA mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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