I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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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 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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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