The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGood ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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 man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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.
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