Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSuccess is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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