Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMen have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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