Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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