I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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 good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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