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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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