Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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