We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSuccess is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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She was the captain of her soul
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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