Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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