A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPouring out liquor is like burning books.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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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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Someone 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.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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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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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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