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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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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 problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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