As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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