Read, read read. Read everything.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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