It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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