Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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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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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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No 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.
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