Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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 writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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