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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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