Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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