Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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 individual can tell the truth.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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