Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFor 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…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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 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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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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