The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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