Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERShe was the captain of her soul
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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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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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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Who gathers the withered rose?
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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 field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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