Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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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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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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