Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERUnless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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History is not was, it is.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
WILLIAM FAULKNER