Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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