Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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History is not was, it is.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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You 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.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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