People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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