No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLet the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was the captain of her soul
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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