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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTry to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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She was the captain of her soul
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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