I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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