If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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