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…
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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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