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 FAULKNERThe salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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