Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNERGratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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