War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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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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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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