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 FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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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.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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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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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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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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