You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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She was the captain of her soul
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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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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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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