We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTeach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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