You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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 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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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