Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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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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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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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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