Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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