If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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