A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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 only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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Because 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.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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