Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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