Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Try to be better than yourself.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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History is not was, it is.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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