Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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