I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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