Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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 happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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