The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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More William Faulkner Quotes
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Clocks 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.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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