War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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