People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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