Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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I 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.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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