Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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