Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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