Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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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.
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