Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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 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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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