Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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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…
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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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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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