People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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