Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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