I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERClocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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History is not was, it is.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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