As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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