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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»
«I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.»
«As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose the be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel. . . .»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
beck, Call of, capitalistic, damned, demands, influenced, itinerant, moneyed, propose, proposing, scoundrel, The Be
«Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.»
«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 allusion of philosophers and fools.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
allusion, battle, field, field of battle, folly, fought, philosophers, reveals, The Field, won
«All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
all of, All of Us, basis, failed, impossible, match, matching, perfection, rate, rating, So I, splendid
«I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
demanding, failed, failing, finds, maybe, novel, novelist, poet, short stories, short story, story, take up, the novelist, The short story, tries
«No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.»
«It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Literature
| Keywords:
Nobel, Nobel prize, prize, thaw, thawed
«I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
background, backgrounds, Background and, inclined, in the background, military
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