Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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She was the captain of her soul
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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