I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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 books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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