I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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