Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAs long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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