We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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