You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTeach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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