You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERArtists 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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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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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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 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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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