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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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