One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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