My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSomeone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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