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WILLIAM FAULKNERWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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