Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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She was the captain of her soul
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