For 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…
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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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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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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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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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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