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 FAULKNERI only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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