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 FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to 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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