Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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