Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNERMy own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Try to be better than yourself.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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