One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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