I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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