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 FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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History is not was, it is.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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