The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice 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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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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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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