It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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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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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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 most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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