Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read read. Read everything.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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