Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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