Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWhatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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 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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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