Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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