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.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly when the clock stops does time come to life
More William Faulkner Quotes
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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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.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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