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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERArtists 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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