The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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 writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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