Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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