No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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