Read, read read. Read everything.
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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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