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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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History is not was, it is.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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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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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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