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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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 the captain of her soul
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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