Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERShe was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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