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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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