I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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