It’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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERArtists 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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