I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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