Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTeach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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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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