It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERJust 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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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