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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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