Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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 aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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