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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Try to be better than yourself.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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