He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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