Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read read. Read everything.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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