Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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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…
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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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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