It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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