We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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