War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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