Read, read read. Read everything.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Just 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.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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