Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGood ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTeach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBecause 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
WILLIAM FAULKNER