It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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.
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