The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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She was the captain of her soul
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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It’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.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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