Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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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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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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