As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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