I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Always 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.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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