If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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