The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTime 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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 one individual can tell the truth.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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