I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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