We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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