If a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Try to be better than yourself.
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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 only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The 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.
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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 end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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