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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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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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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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