You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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She was the captain of her soul
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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