We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBe scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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