I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSuccess is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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