As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBecause no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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 past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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