Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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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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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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