As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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