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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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