Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly when the clock stops does time come to life
More William Faulkner Quotes
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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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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She was the captain of her soul
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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