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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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History is not was, it is.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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