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 FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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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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