No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPouring out liquor is like burning books.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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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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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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History is not was, it is.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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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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