The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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