Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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