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 FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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