The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThere 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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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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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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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.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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