Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBe scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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