Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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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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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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