Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThey say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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 can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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