Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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She was the captain of her soul
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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