I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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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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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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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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