I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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