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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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