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 FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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