The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBut 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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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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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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