Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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