There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTeach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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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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