Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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.
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