Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Like 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.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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