Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Civilization begins with distillation
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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She was the captain of her soul
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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