Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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