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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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 young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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