Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNever be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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