He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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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 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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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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