All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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.
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