And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on 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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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