The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNERJust 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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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 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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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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