We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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History is not was, it is.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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