Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly when the clock stops does time come to life
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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