No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read read. Read everything.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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