Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGood ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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History is not was, it is.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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