Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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