We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner

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Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.

Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in...

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in...

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act...

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act...

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means...

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man

A gentleman can live through anything.

A gentleman can live through anything.

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not...

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that...

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that...

I decline to accept the end of man.

I decline to accept the end of man.

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.