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 FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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