Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTeach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNERBe scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNER