My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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History is not was, it is.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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