You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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A 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.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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