A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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