I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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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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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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