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 FAULKNERNo 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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