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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBe scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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History is not was, it is.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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