Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNERCivilization begins with distillation
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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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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