Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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