People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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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