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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTeach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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