As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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