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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

William Faulkner

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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Born Get Keep Lot People Same Time Try
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Better Bother Contemporaries Predecessor Try Yourself
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Agree Behaviour Being Christianity Code Follow Human Individual Mena Nature No One Word
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Family Memory Most Our Sweet Treasure
How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Could Do Except Just Know Knowmobidy Me Much Not So You
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Artist Beg Choose Creature Demon Done Driven Everybody Steal Wonder Work
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Best Fiction Journalism More True
Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Be Beter To Try Yourself
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afraid Be Ourselves Start Teach
I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Battle Breath Conquer Ever Fought Give Moment Remember Spend Time Try Won
Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Cam Do Not What You
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

After Day Do Eat Eight Hour Love Man One Sad Thing Work
Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Damage Dead Escape Folk Hold Lay Live Man One Quiet Talk Yes
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Avoid Been Dangerm Fight Every Except Men Pracfist Reason Sun Under
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write

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