The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERCivilization begins with distillation
More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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.
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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