Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLike 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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