No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGood ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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