How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBut 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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 man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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