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WILLIAM FAULKNERThe young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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