I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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She was the captain of her soul
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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