Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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History is not was, it is.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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