We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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