No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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