The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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