I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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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.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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