Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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