Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Quote by William Faulkner

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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on...

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act...

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act...

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon...

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in...

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in...

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could...

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could...

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not...

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not...

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a...

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a...

And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and...

And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and...

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough;...

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough;...