My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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