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 man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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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 say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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