Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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