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 FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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