Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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