If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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