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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, tragedy, fear, things

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, books, rightness, love

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.

Quote by William Faulkner about art, life, artists

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, writers, time, artists

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

Quote by William Faulkner about wisdom, dream, end

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.

Quote by William Faulkner about earth, human imperfections

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Quote by William Faulkner about people, man

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

Quote by William Faulkner about past

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Quote by William Faulkner about world, suffering, man

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, events, risk, need, things, good, good luck, contentment

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

Quote by William Faulkner about people, contentment

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about people, teaching

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about life, grace

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about hell, nature

All of us are Guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about people, progress, humanity, god, work

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about hell, people

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, vulgarity, action, light

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, failure, night, success, work

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about goodnes

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, regret, people