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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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