Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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