Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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