Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAt one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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