As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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