A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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