Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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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